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Should Perturabo care?


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So the rebellion on Olympia that thrust the IV Legion into the traitor cause was kindled by the Word Bearers, mainly Erebus. You guys think Perturabo even cares? Should he? Also, aside from completely destroying your home planet i.e. the Night Lords, would just messing it up really bad be worthy of censure, or just embarrassing to your brother Legions?

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He was already nearing the edge. I think the he should have been pushed by non-Imperial forces but some push was bound to happen either way. Let's be honest, even if Olympia hadn't been razed Peturabo didn't have warm fuzzy feelings about the Emperor or his crusade at that point anyway. He may have jumped ship simply to forge his own path and prove his mettle a bit more "publicly."

The problem is not that he shouldn't care, is that he cares too much.

I know that angel exterminatus isnt the world's favourite novel but it shows off perts depth, the amount of attention to detail he has, his ability to create as well as destroy. He and his warriors are capable of much more than the slog and the grind, and he knows this.

Would it not hurt you knowing you are capable of so much but being forced to do the same thing over and over.

Things start to get at you. And if your home turns against you after the hard slog and grind, you're gonna lose your rag a bit, especially when the people you work with use you/see you for only one thing

The problem is not that he shouldn't care, is that he cares too much.

I know that angel exterminatus isnt the world's favourite novel but it shows off perts depth, the amount of attention to detail he has, his ability to create as well as destroy. He and his warriors are capable of much more than the slog and the grind, and he knows this.

Would it not hurt you knowing you are capable of so much but being forced to do the same thing over and over.

Things start to get at you. And if your home turns against you after the hard slog and grind, you're gonna lose your rag a bit, especially when the people you work with use you/see you for only one thing

Yeah, after a while I'd have to start screening The Emperor's/Horus' astrotelepathic calls.

Personally I don't think he'd really care too much post angel extreminatus see as how 1 allied brother tried to kill him another betraying him wouldnt surprise him. By 40k he just sulks on Medengard hating the entire universe including his sons. He's the single traitor primarch I can see fighting along side the imperium in the coming rumored end times 40k not because he likes the imperium but because he hates his fellow traitors for their weakness and sees his own legions likeness in the imperium victory through attrition style of war.

Um what? Where's it stated that the WBs provoked the Olympia rebellion? Both the old IA and the FW book had it be the result of the old warlords making a bid for their old power back once Perty's stepdad died.

I was also not aware of this! It does seem like something that would happen though!

 

Does he even know about it?

Know about what?

The Word Bearers involvement.

 

Like the guys above, I didn't know about it. Is there anything that says he knows about it?

If he does, it seems odd that he wouldn't just kill Erebus and hate the Word Bearers (he kinda hates everybody anyway). If he doesn't, then it would make for an interesting story arc when he finds out.

If they're doing the whole All the Primarchs return thing, and its already been hinted that some come back different, then having a traitor repent would be the obvious one. Of all of them, Perturabo and Magnus seem the lowest hanging fruit (outside of trying to rationalise whatever

Omegon/Alpharius RIP sweet prince/spacing to make the spoiler not so obvious

has been up to ... eeek .... I went cross-eyed ...). 

See I read something a long time ago that Perty, although pissed about the way his legion is treated, was the only borderline traitor primarch involved unlike Kurze who told everyone "Welcome to my party" and he eventually regretted his choice to join Horus. Also a lead in to why his legion cuts off mutations as they want no part of chaos(as a whole) and its a convenient excuse for cybernetics augmentation.

I do not recall Erebus and/or the WB involved in the Olympia uprising, but I may not be up to date with current fluff develepments.

IMO, it is also not the most relevant factor in Perturabo's reaction. Erebus or the WB (or Alpha Legion) do not just come along and voila, global uprising!

In Perturabo's world you do your bloody job when you are told to. And are expected to be the best at doing your bloody job.

This is the guy who expects his Legion to punish itself for not being the best even in the early crusade.

If your job is compliance, you comply. If an Erebus comes along and asks you to join his shenanigangs, you sent him packing. Olympia gets punished for failing their Primarch. Why is at most secondary. If you fail Perturabo, you get pulped. Period.

 

As for redemption...IW do not cut out mutations because they loath Chaos. They cut them out because they failed at controlling it. They punish their weakness.

And Perturabo is a freaking daemon primarch. You do not get there as an innocent bystander.

Also, current fluff has him and the IVth supporting the 13th Crusade. And not after planetary nombardement (I am looking at you, Magnus). That is not very repenting to me.

Also, current fluff has him and the IVth supporting the 13th Crusade. And not after planetary nombardement (I am looking at you, Magnus). That is not very repenting to me.

True, but then none of the current fluff has any indication of Primarchs changing sides, yet that's the persistent rumour. While I don't particularly like it, Pertuarbo probably makes amongst the most sense for the confirmed living Traitor Primarchs. So if that's the way things are going, I wouldn't be surprised to see Perty doing the face-heel/heel-face turn.

 

 

Does he even know about it?

Know about what?

The Word Bearers involvement.

 

Like the guys above, I didn't know about it. Is there anything that says he knows about it?

If he does, it seems odd that he wouldn't just kill Erebus and hate the Word Bearers (he kinda hates everybody anyway). If he doesn't, then it would make for an interesting story arc when he finds out.

 

In the First Heretic, Argel Tal and Xaphen are conversing after being away 40 years and spreading lodges within most of the soon to be traitor legions. Xaphen mentions if not Erebus specifically, that some agents of the Word Bearers are on Olympia conspiring with the disaffected parties there to rebel. I would just think after 10,000 Perturabo himself or one of the legionaries still loyal to him would've found out and brought him that news. 

 

Update: After reading the relevant passage in The First Heretic, Xaphen doesn't mention Erebus, but does say that he and other Word Bearers were on Olympia and things were manipulated to happen.

He made his decision. He will see it trough for better or worse.

See, I need help with this one. He made a decision to defend and fight for the Emperor...But he quit on that. Why wouldn't he quit on the traitor Legions that quit on the Siege..which he was leading. He is a quitter who served quitters. Be it the Emperor or the Traitor cause.

biggrin.png Too much salt in my diet.

And if Pertrurabo does "quit sides" how does a demon prince change sides? How does that work? How is that even possible?

The Emperor never gave a :cuss about what perty wanted. Never gave him credit aswell.

Did he really choose? What choice do you have when a God "asks" something of you? One that had no problemo erasing 2 of his bros?

Emperor is just another tyrant. He wanted conquerors, generals and murderer's. He never cared about their wishes or their dreams. They were tools for him.

Even poor Magnus was just a tool to power up the golden throne.

 

But it was not as black and white as this.

He was on the edge and the events of Olympia pushed him further. His fears and paranoia were manipulated. There was no turning back.

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